Perkins, I hope you can find a good vet and get Ozzie taken care of quickly.

Thanks. I'm less angry now, since one of the other vets called me back and I at least got the prescription filled.

I figure I am going to call tomorrow and see if they will assign Ozzie to the other full time vet full, and if not, make it clear that I am only there until I can find another vet.

Shrift, have you tried an antihistamine? Allergies tend to make my ducts itchy and swollen and the allergens are flying around here.

Benadryl, on top of the allergy meds I'm already taking. Doesn't seem to be getting worse at this point, so I am cautiously optimistic that it's just an allergic reaction.

nice morning, a little humid on the subway, but nice outside. Birds were chirping like mad in my neighborhood this morning. Thank goodness I can only hear them once I am outside.

Colds used to regularly make my tear duct drainage stop up. (Excess 'tears' -- eyeball moistening fluid -- drains into your sinuses.) So every cold, my eyes would just run tears if I, say, moved or looked at things. I don't know why this stopped with age, but damn am I glad it did.

I figure I am going to call tomorrow and see if they will assign Ozzie to the other full time vet full, and if not, make it clear that I am only there until I can find another vet.

Good call.

Birds wake me up sometimes, which is so annoying! But not this morning. This morning, I woke up a half hour ahead of the alarm all on my own. Greeeaaaat.

I figure I am going to call tomorrow and see if they will assign Ozzie to the other full time vet full, and if not, make it clear that I am only there until I can find another vet.

Perkins, poor Ozzie and poor you.

For what it's worth, I think I might postpone the part about making it clear that you're only there until you can find another vet. If they don't assign Ozzie to the other full time vet, I would find another vet first, then tell them why you've left their practice, after.

Perkins, I hope the vet issue gets solved soon.

shrift, I hope you feel better, soon, and at minimal expenses.

People who woke up early - yay you! I love waking up early on my own, before any alarm clock, just because. I feel like I got the time between waking up and the actual hour I have to get up, as a present from, well, somebody (um, not the birds), and use it only for fun stuff. Some people prefer waking up late, but I enjoy waking up early.

That's it, I think, right? Oh, no, wait - I skimmed, I actually know some of the topics people have been nattering about, so there is something else to say: annoying people, stop being annoying!

Nilly! I was wondering where you were.

I'm right here. But how nice to know that I've been wondered about.

How are you doing? Feeling better than last week?